legal vehicles and lots of hope

I am doing really badly and then today I had an order from someone for over £200 ( wholesale so not really that much but much better than I have been doing recently). Its looking good. Also a publisher has offered me free advertising in a vegan trade mag which I cannot afford to pay for which is totally unexpected and very generous of them. Maybe all this small amount of good luck is going to make it work after all. I managed to MOT the van and pay for the tax ( today) and I did ok at Brum vegan fair which was brilliant fun as expected. Sadly I will stil be struggling to pay for Bristol Eco-fair but who knows maybe it will all just fall into place. The tax man will want the tax return soon too so I had better get round to doing the books up to date in the next week. I have had to buy some new candle supplies which is a pain to fullfill the new order - its good to get it tho dont get me wrong but its for 16 candles so I have to make more and when weighing available candle wax I do not expect to have enough. Still with luck there will be other candle orders so the money wont be tied up too long. Then this weekend we are back at Wellesbourne market - in the rain by the looks of things and there is a new ( for us!) market in Sherwood forest which we are going to try. The woman I spoke to on the phone about it seemed really nice and not at all like the usual Toby( market manager) so I am hopeful this may be a good one. I should be back on Rugby craft market in May too so not too long to survive. This so they say is the year that decides if you have infact got a viable business. Most companies go under in the next few months timewise. I just hope I manage to make it work. This is real make your dream come true thing for me and I am tryng everything now that I can think of. There is no point doing the tiny local markets tho- tempted as I am since I hate sitting round waiting for it to work but I just lost money last year doing them. WE are still seriously financially knackered but maybe at the end of April we will be getting there again. We managed to spend just £60 on food last month ( we do have loads of dried pulses in stock) and I am off to pick some nettles now to make nettle soup from the recipe emailed to me by the Vegan familly house
http://www.veganfamily.co.uk/soups.html
worth trying I think. Also the Redditch veggies and vegans have a talk on soon which sounds really interesting on picking your own wild foods as follows:
Wild food for free talk & demonstration, On Wednesday 7 April, a talk in Redditch offers the opportunity to explore nature's free wild food larder. You can pick up lots of ideas for foraging, cooking and feasting on the wild plant food that is freely available to us all. The talk will be given by Mary Green, a wildlife writer from Alvechurch and is hosted by the Redditch Vegetarian and Vegan Society(RVV).
Using freshly picked samples from the local area, Mary will show us what plants are edible, where to look for them, how to safely identify them and how to prepare them. She'll even tell us how to cook wild foods, so you'll have all the info you need to make the transition from pathway to plate! The meeting will take place from 7.30pm at St Georges Community Hall, St Georges Road, Redditch. Admission is free, all are welcome.
As it happens I currently have no idea where St Georges Hall is but I am intending to try and go to this since it sounds just the type of talk I will like. Also all the other talks of this type I have seen advertised include killing and gutting animals and personally being veggie this really does not appeal so I never go but I do want to know more about wild foods so this could be really good. Its quite a long way from me but I will see if I can make it.